26.Sep.2025
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Video: Creating the arcade game "Space Race 2" in AMOS (1)
At the end of August, Keith 'Yawning Angel' Elcombe showed in a video how he recreated the arcade game "Space Race" in AMOS. In his new video, he now begins work on version 2 and uses the "AMOS Animation Language" (AMAL) for the graphic animation.
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26.Sep.2025
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 3.1:
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2025, 18:02] [Comments: 0]
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26.Sep.2025
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DIY: Connecting USB keyboards with STALKER
The STALKER adapter card by Gianluca Renzi enables USB-HID keyboards to be connected to the Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000/3000, Amiga 4000/CD32, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 and is based on a 32-bit STM32 microcontroller.
The STALKER offers a built-in USB stack that enables support for USB HID keyboards without the need to install additional AmigaOS software drivers. The entire installation process boils down to connecting a STALKER adapter and plug to the keyboard port of the Amiga 1000, 2000 or 4000 externally, or internally in any other Amiga computer.
Another feature of the adapter is its "bootloader" function, which enables future firmware upgrades. The STALKER comes with special firmware, but any firmware version can be installed without any problems, as it is an open source project. Features:
- supports for both USB HID, wireless adapters and USB-PS/2 keyboards,
- Amiga 1000, 2000/3000, Amiga 4000/CD32, Amiga 1200, Amiga 600 and Amiga 500 compatibility,
- built-in USB stack with HID Keyboard firmware driver
- "Bootloader" function allowing future firmware upgrades,
- "Status" indicator LED providing information about device's state,
- built around 32-bit STM32 microcontroller utilizing latest technology,
- non-blocking keyboard.
Hardware documentation for DIY construction is available for the internal versions of the A1200, A500 and A600, as well as for the external stand-alone version.
Two days ago, version 1.5 of the USB keyboard driver and version 0.3 of the bootloader were released.
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2025, 06:17] [Comments: 0]
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26.Sep.2025
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Video: The Amiga emulator Amithlon
Amithlon was an Amiga emulator for x86 computers developed by Harald Frank and Bernd Meyer. In his latest video, Dan Wood looks back at its history, provides installation tips and tests the emulator.
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2025, 06:11] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2025
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 173 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE (‘Retro Emulator Vision and Game’) is available in English translation as well as the original Italian version. Where available, the game reviews in REV'n'GE compare the implementations of classics between different platforms of the time. It also attempts to seek out lesser-known retro games. The new issue covers ‘Hard “n” Heavy’, “Tetrazone” and the ‘Label Designer’ for designing disc stickers, among other things.
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25.Sep.2025
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Demo version: Dodge throwing stars in "Fight!"
In "Fight!", which was created with the Scorpion Engine, the aim is to dodge ninja throwing stars. The player controls two characters at the same time, unless they have a human opponent to play against.
[News message: 25. Sep. 2025, 23:39] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2025
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QEMU frontend for starting AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 1.5.0
George Sokianos' QEMU frontend Kyvos, which is designed to significantly simplify the setup and launch of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS under QEMU, is now available in version 1.5.0, which includes the following improvements:
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[News message: 25. Sep. 2025, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Program schedule for Amiga40 (Germany)
Press release (translation): "The program schedule for Amiga40 was officially published today on amigaevent.de!
Saturday will start with high-profile presentations and interviews with our guests of honor, including Dale Luck, Jeff Bruette, and Jürgen Göldner. In the afternoon, we will focus entirely on the classic game "The Settlers II", which will finally be released in an Amiga version at Amiga40 - only 29 years late!
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24.Sep.2025
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Do it yourself: CDTV infrared converter for joysticks
The Amiga CDTV Brick allows two players to use their standard Amiga joysticks on the CDTV, just like the corresponding prototype from Commodore, without having to purchase a CD1200-Trackball (manual), which has become expensive on the second-hand market meanwhile. To do this, a Raspberry Pi Pico converts the joystick signals into corresponding infrared signals.
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[News message: 24. Sep. 2025, 10:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2025
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Program for testing the SCSI controller chips of the Amiga 3000
The open source Amiga SDMAC test program, available in version 1.0, identifies the version of the Commodore SDMAC chip installed in the Amiga 3000, which accesses the WD33C93A SCSI controller - whose chip version and configuration can be read out as well.
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[News message: 24. Sep. 2025, 10:55] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2025
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Blog: Amiga Spice (electronic circuit simulator)
In his latest blog entry, Edwin van den Oosterkamp discusses the continued usability of the Amiga version of SPICE, a circuit simulation program. Although he will continue to use the more modern PC versions for work, he will probably use the Amiga counterpart, which was last updated in 1996, more often for his hobby projects now.
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[News message: 24. Sep. 2025, 10:54] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2025
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Video documentary: Dragon's Lair on the Amiga
The new video "Dragon's Lair on the Amiga - How a laserdisc game fit onto 6 floppy disks" at Modern Vintage Gamer takes an in-depth look at the technology behind the Amiga version of Dragon's Lair: How could a game that originally ran on a laserdisc with animated film sequences be compressed so that it fit onto just six 3.5" floppy disks?
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[News message: 23. Sep. 2025, 10:04] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2025
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Stories from Liverpool: John Romero on Amiga and Grind
At Liverpool Games Market, Amiga Addict had the opportunity to talk to Doom developer John Romero about his early years, forgotten projects, and his view of current Amiga developments. Romero was impressed by the Dread/Grind demo for the Amiga 500: "That looks really smooth." Romero speaks with palpable appreciation about the Amiga, reflecting on its significance and expressing no surprise that current projects such as Grind can even amaze such an experienced developer.
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23.Sep.2025
Dirk W. Hoffmann (E-Mail)
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.4b2 (update)
Dirk Hoffmann has released version 4.4b1 of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS. In this new version the Preferences window has received a visual overhaul, and the built-in screen recording has been removed in favor of RetroVisor.
Additionally two bugs were fixed: the large toolbar icon issue introduced in version 4.3.2 on macOS Tahoe has been resolved, and the CPU property "irqMode" has not been saved in snapshots in earlier versions.
The developer adds that vAmiga has not been thoroughly tested on macOS Tahoe. The officially supported OS is Sequoia. While it may run on Tahoe, compatibility is not guaranteed.
Update: (06:57, 26.09.25, dr)
Version 4.4b2 is now available. Enhancements:
- Combined preferences and VR configuration into a single unified settings dialog.
- Introduced an onboarding agent that launches when no ROM is installed.
- Added fingerprints for Hyperion 3.2.3 ROMs.
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23.Sep.2025
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New sound tool: FxBox 1.13
Since August - and still somewhat under the radar - a new sound tool for 68k Amigas running AmigaOS 1.3 or higher has been available. It is a real-time multi-loop processor and editor developed with AMOS BASIC.
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[News message: 23. Sep. 2025, 09:59] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2025
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Managing ADF files: adflib v0.10.5 for Windows, Linux and macOS
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format (amiga-news.de reported). The library is currently being developed under the responsibility of Tomasz Wolak. Changes in version 0.10.5:
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[News message: 23. Sep. 2025, 09:47] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2025
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AI chatbot: AmigaGPT 2.12.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2025, 21:25] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2025
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Email client: First test version 0.1.1 of AMail available
Ryan 'bluewizard' Stapleton has released a first test version 0.1.1 of "AMail", his implementation of a modern email cleint for AmigaOS 3.2 that supports IMAP and SMTP (video).
As he writes, AMail would no longer work with Yahoo and Gmail. If anyone manages to get it working, he asks for feedback. Some features have not yet been implemented, and the developer does not expect to have them ready by the end of the Amiga 40 Tools Jam. These include, among others:
- Add input Blocking when the machine is doing something in addition to the stopwatch
- When Reply include at least some of the body message
- Reply to a message
- CC addressed to the reply
- Settings to enable Re: in the subject line
- enable start StartTLS
- Add option to verify SSL cert, currently it accepts any as ok
- Add setting to enable or disable cert based on needs
- Message Body is limited to 4k
- Add ability to use IMAP Folders
- Identify unread messages
At least AmiSSL 5.22 or later is required.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2025, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.9.0
Amiberry-lite is an Amiga emulator based on WinUAE 4.4 and, unlike its big brother Amiberry, is designed for slower hardware – down to the Raspberry Pi 4. New features in version 5.9.0:
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2025, 06:20] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.22
Juha 'capehill' Niemimäki has released version 3.2.22 of the SDL multimedia library for AmigaOS 4. Changes:
- Fix fullscreen mode switching
- Add global property SDL_PROP_IOSTREAM_AMIGAOS4_USE_BUFFERED
Direct download: SDL3.lha (10 MB)
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2025, 06:14] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2025
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MorphOS: Unreal Engine 1.2 (update)
Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille and Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró have released a MorphOS port of Unreal Engine 1 (video). The game was released free of charge on the Internet Archive at the end of October 2024 (see also the corresponding PCWorld article).
Only the original retail version v200 of Unreal works; later versions or Unreal Gold do not work. You will need the latest version of SDL2 (v53.20), the latest TinyGL version 53.10, an OpenGL-capable graphics card, and MorphOS 3.19.
Update: (24.09.2025, 21:04, dr)
Version 1.1 has since been replaced by version 1.2: the editor part was missing from the build in the former.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2025, 06:05] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2025
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Blog: The golden age of point-and-click adventure games (Spanish)
The latest entry on the Retro Tech & Café blog (in Spanish) looks at the golden age of point-and-click adventure games: from "the pixelated charm of Monkey Island and The Legend Of Kyrandia to the sarcastic brilliance of Simon the Sorcerer".
In his article, the author is not only concerned with nostalgia, but "it's a look at how these games taught us to think with the mouse, not just click."
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2025, 05:54] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2025
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Aminet uploads until 20.09.2025
The following files have been added until 20.09.2025 to Aminet:
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21.Sep.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.09.2025
The following files have been added until 20.09.2025 to OS4Depot:
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[News message: 21. Sep. 2025, 10:10] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.09.2025
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 20.09.2025:
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21.Sep.2025
Paddys Retro Kanal (ANF)
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Videos: Trailer of The Settlers II for Amiga & Interview with Steffen Häuser
In just under a month, on October 18, 2025, "The Settlers II - Gold Edition" will be released for the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). A trailer has now been published by the publisher Look Behind You at the title link.
In addition, Paddy da Linco talks on his Retro Channel to Steffen Häuser about this port — for example, how the idea came about, how the implementation took shape and what hardware requirements the game has.
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21.Sep.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Serious Sam port in the works
Following the MorphOS port by Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille and Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró, Steffen Häuser is currently working on an implementation of Serious Sam for AmigaOS 4, which will be made available at OS4Depot also free of charge. The CD of the PC version of the game is required. Ported are the first two parts from 2001 and 2002: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter.
A (very) stable beta version would already exist, and interested further testers are welcome to make contact by e-mail. The first-person shooter would be running "super smoothly" on an AmigaOne X1000, with tests on Sam4x0 computers still to follow. However, it does not run in emulation under QEmu due to the required 3D hardware. On the software side, NovaBridge is expected to be required, as it would run under GL4ES but look "unattractive", at least at present.
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[News message: 21. Sep. 2025, 10:10] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2025
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Video: Molyneux - The Nobody
At the title link the first part of a Video series has been published which dignifies Sir Peter Molyneux, father of games that were succesful also on the Amiga like Populous (1989) and Powermonger (1990).
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[News message: 21. Sep. 2025, 10:10] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2025
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Photos from the Dutch HomeComputerMuseum
Robert Bernardo has visited (again) the HomeComputerMuseum (amiga-news.de reported) in Helmond, The Netherlands, and presents his photos of the Commodore computers there, including the Amiga models, spread over seven pages. He also mentions that these exhibits have been reorganized and are now presented even more impressively.
Part 1 of the photos, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7.
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20.Sep.2025
'Dr_Myles_Skinner'
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TPUG Magazine is looking for Amiga-related submissions
Dr. Myles Skinner writes: "I normally hang out with the C64 folks, but I'm hoping to reach our Amiga friends. The venerable old Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) has asked me to go ahead and post a small announcement: We're thrilled to announce that the TPUG magazine is returning and will be available in print for the first time in ages at World of Commodore 2025.
We have a little extra room for a couple more articles, so we're accepting proposals. Because of the Amiga's 40th birthday, we would especially like to have Commodore Amiga-related submissions. If you have an idea for an article, please send your proposal to tpug_magazine@tierceron.com.
To keep up with all the latest news on the magazine's relaunch, be sure to visit our website. I'm the editor of this beast, so if there are any questions, I'll do my best to answer."
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[News message: 20. Sep. 2025, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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20.Sep.2025
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Platformer: Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey (AGA)
In "Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey" (video), the aim is to guide the constantly bouncing character Bonzo through 17 levels spread across three worlds, with bosses and bonus levels also featured. The title, created with the Scorpion engine, requires an AGA Amiga with at least 0.5 MB of Fast RAM and a hard drive or CD drive, although progress cannot be saved with the latter. On joysticks and joypads with two independent fire buttons, the second button is used for jumping.
Configurations with a Pistorm or (quote) 'similar, "modern" Amigas' may experience unspecified problems. "Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey" is available for download for USD 7.50 at itch.io.
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[News message: 20. Sep. 2025, 23:49] [Comments: 0]
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20.Sep.2025
Youtube (ANF)
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Title song from "Return to Monkey Island" as a Heavy Metal version
The Band "Trick or Treat" has its very own contribution the the Monkey Island legacy: Their cover of "Return to Monkey Island" is described as a "Happy Power Metal" version and comes complete with a Monkey Island style music video.
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